My friend is going through a tough time and came over to stay with me for the weekend. She had a lot to tell me and as always, I listened intently and gave opinions or made suggestions if I felt it appropriate. On many, many occasions when I started to speak, she talked over me. A couple of times I tried to continue talking, but she got louder and I gave up. By the second day, I was surprised when she said - ‘I’ve interrupted you there, sorry, what were you saying?’
So she is aware of it, but does it anyway.
The thing is - I don’t remember her doing this in the past. Where has this crap habit come from?
And with the horrible stuff she was talking about, how could I tell her she was being rude?
As she left she said - let’s do this again in a few weeks! If she never lets me get a word in though, I won’t want to, it makes me feel rotten.
What would you do? Tell her, and basically kick her when she’s down? Or bite your lip and hope it’s an odd phase?